once of one of Asian's top 5 small economic tigers, look what too much freedom cause....
Evidence of link with freedom to economic decline?
ok, fine. then u go jobless. no income, lets see how u going to live... also must depend on govt handouts...right...
Your reasoning is illogical.
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Evidence of link with freedom to economic decline?
when KMT was governing taiwan since chiang kai shek rule, taiwan's tech industry is very booming with foreign investment, foreign money set up factories and stuff.
when DPP got power in 2000, at 1st still okay. but after liberalising freedom too much of it, political scene in taiwan got unstable, foreign investment falls.
now KMT took back power, on track to recovery. but not so fast, need 2-4 years to stablise the country economically.
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Your reasoning is illogical.
then u r just not a practical person.
analogy:
e.g. some pple sees thing technically, some pple see things artistically.
for me. back in secondary school. i got A1 for design and technology (technical) for 'o' levels , but an d7 for arts and design.
but after liberalising freedom too much of it, political scene in taiwan got unstable, foreign investment falls.
Need evidence for that.
What about DPRK?
No freedom, economy in ruins.
then u r just not a practical person.
In what way not practical?
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Need evidence for that.
What about DPRK?
No freedom, economy in ruins.
we r a socialist-parliamentary government, not a communist government.
we r just keeping "too much freedom" in balance, in check, and not a "all out freedom". america isnt a too much freedom country too, they have law and order to keep in balance.
we r a socialist-parliamentary government, not a communist government.
We are a one party state under a facade of democratic rule.
The one party, the PAP, is dominated by the Lee family.
we r just keeping "too much freedom" in balance, in check, and not a "all out freedom". america isnt a too much freedom country too, they have law and order to keep in balance.
???
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:We are a one party state under a facade of democratic rule.
The one party, the PAP, is dominated by the Lee family.
???
look at it this way: LHL will step down, LHL's sons r not into politics later. PAP's successor will change, like GCT took over from LKY.
another question: do u want Singapore politics to be unstable like that of Taiwan? KMT to DPP then now back to KMT again...
look at it this way: LHL will step down, LHL's sons r not into politics later. PAP's successor will change, like GCT took over from LKY.
PAP still runs the show.
The autocratic rule won't change.
another question: do u want Singapore politics to be unstable like that of Taiwan? KMT to DPP then now back to KMT again...
Taiwan is stable, not unstable.
Pakistan is unstable.
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:PAP still runs the show.
The autocratic rule won't change.
Taiwan is stable, not unstable.
Pakistan is unstable.
i rather have a public consultative yet a stable autocratic govt for such a small city-state.
pakistan there is more unstable than taiwan, though is unstable too.
i rather have a public consultative
Why you wayang yourself?
Why?
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Why you wayang yourself?
Why?
huh? pls dun chop up my sentence, hence taking things out of its original meaning.
the current PAP is loosening up gradually, and at present state, its not the old PAP when SG just got independence.
public consultative style starts from GCK's PM years onwards.
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:
again sadly... a "just complain, no solution" letter.
it just show the complaints of the solution PAP give, but did SDP give us an alternative solution? NO.
always like that. no concrete plan, no masterplan, no blueprint whatsoever. all talk, no action.
much less than details to further expand its details of its blueprints, if it has any anyway...
Originally posted by Rednano:
i rather have a public consultative yet a stable autocratic govt for such a small city-state.
pakistan there is more unstable than taiwan, though is unstable too.
can u gurantee that singapore wun turn out like north korea in the future....we currently are like north korea in the 70's. but 20yrs down the road we will never know how..
Originally posted by kengkia:can u gurantee that singapore wun turn out like north korea in the future....we currently are like north korea in the 70's. but 20yrs down the road we will never know how..
economic reforms r important at top of other priorities then.
FTAs and those foreign direct investments. we r always open doors to FDIs, unlike closed domestic north korea or Myanmar or even, Laos.
Originally posted by Rednano:
economic reforms r important at top of other priorities then.
FTAs and those foreign direct investments. we r always open doors to FDIs, unlike closed domestic north korea.
the current flight of north korea is caused by unwillingness of ah kim to open up his nation
the current misery of north korea caused by no power checking there, allowing ah kim as a ruler of the north(more bastard than Kim Il sung) to screw up his people...machiam like hell
have u think abt what will happen to sg when it falls into the hands of likes of ah kim?
Originally posted by kengkia:
the current flight of north korea is caused by unwillingness of ah kim to open up his nationthe current misery of north korea caused by no power checking there, allowing ah kim as a ruler of the north(more bastard than Kim Il sung) to screw up his people...machiam like hell
have u think abt what will happen to sg when it falls into the hands of likes of ah kim?
DPRK is different, they r communist but unlike China who have since open up its economy to outside under Mao Ze Tong's economic reforms years onwards. DPRK reluntant to open up is in the form of idealogy, and not slanging to "political biaseness" or "foreign economic inflow", for fear of its citizens' communist idealogy being mind-corrupted by foreign media and communication
DPRK is more communist idealogy than China.
and a documentary on Discovery channel: the DPRK state media is run show/radio to worship the Kim. totally censorship of outside world, unlike China's strict but still have some leeway for foreign media.
No war like hitler can liao
Singapore a one party state?!
What happened to SDA led by MP Chiam?
What happened to WP MP Low and NMP WP Sylvia Lim?
Aren't these 3 from the oppostion political parties?
Aren't they qualified to comment on State's policies?
There are already 3 different political parties in our parliament. These opposition figures failed to produce more quality persons to be voted in to form a major block, not the ruling party's fault or the fault of citizens who voted. If Spore is single party state, non of the opposition would be sitting in parliament. They would be sitting in Changi Prison instead.
Do get the facts straight.
Singapore is ruled by one party.
That is completely true.
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:Singapore is ruled by one party.
That is completely true.
wrong, Singapore is governed by the majority PAP.
3 persons in parliament r the oppositions.
pls do ur maths... chapter: percentage.
3 persons in parliament r the oppositions.
They don't hold power.
They are not executive power.
They have no influence over policy making.
The power that rules Singapore lies in the inner clique of people within the PAP leadership.
3 people in parliament you call not rule by one party?
That is naive.
Originally posted by Poh Ah Pak:They don't hold power.
They are not executive power.
They have no influence over policy making.
The power that rules Singapore lies in the inner clique of people within the PAP leadership.
3 people in parliament you call not rule by one party?
That is naive.
then tell us y the citizens dun want to overthrow PAP govt?
y vote them since independence?
stablility.... pls dun throw singapore into a political turmoil...